Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daughter of railroad tycoon Luke Carson, and that she had been kidnapped as a baby 14 years ago by Luke's vindictive brother Elwood, and placed with strangers.
Acting
Charles Ruggles' cowardly detective steals every scene he's in
Practical Effects
Genuine train stunts that terrified 1934 audiences
Costume
Una Merkel's Depression-era glamour is immaculate
Director
Harry Beaumont
Charles Ruggles
Godfrey D. Scott
Una Merkel
Georgia Latham
Mary Carlisle
Ruth Raymond
Russell Hardie
John Blake
Porter Hall
Alden Murray
Willard Robertson
Hanks
Berton Churchill
Luke Carson
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Titus
Walter Brennan
Switchman (uncredited)
Ray Corrigan
Naba the Gorilla (uncredited)
Sterling Holloway
Office Boy (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Man Asking About Radio (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 'pre-Code' Hollywood—made just months before strict censorship clamped down on crime, romance, and independent women.
Mary Carlisle was discovered at 14 and became one of Paramount's most prolific stars of the 1930s.
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